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The pupils of the Mysteries had to go through a certain preparation before they were conducted to the true centre of the Mysteries. In the Ephesian Mysteries the centre was this image of the Goddess Artemis. When the pupil was led up to the centre, he became one with such an image. As he stood before the image, he lost the consciousness that he was there in front of it, enclosed in his skin. He acquired the consciousness that he himself is what the image is. He identified himself with the image. This identification of himself in consciousness with the divine image at Ephesus had the following effect. The pupil no longer merely looked out upon the kingdoms of the Earth that were round about him—the stones, trees, rivers, clouds and so forth—but when he felt himself one with the image, when he entered as it were into the image of Artemis, he received an inner vision of his connection with the kingdoms of the Ether. He felt himself one with the world of the stars, one with the processes in the world of the stars. He did not feel himself as earthly substance within a human skin, he felt his cosmic existence. He felt himself in the etheric. And as he did so, there rose before him earlier conditions of Earth-experience and of man's experience on Earth. He began to see what these earlier conditions had been. To-day we look upon the Earth as a great piece of rock or stone, covered with water over a large part of its surface and surrounded by a sphere of air containing oxygen and nitrogen and other substances,—containing, in fact, what the human being requires for breathing. And so on and so on. And when men begin to explain and speculate on what passes to-day for scientific knowledge, then we get a fine result indeed! For only by means of spiritual vision can one penetrate to the conditions that prevailed in the earliest primeval times. Such a spiritual vision, however, concerning primeval conditions of the Earth[^7] and of mankind was attained by the pupils of Ephesus, when they identified themselves with the divine image; they beheld and understood how formerly what surrounds the Earth to-day as atmosphere was not as it now is; surrounding the Earth, in the place where the atmosphere is to-day, was an extraordinarily fine albumen, a volatile, fluid albumenous substance. And they saw how everything that lived on the Earth required for its own genesis the forces of this volatile, fluid albumenous substance, that was spread over the Earth, and how everything also lived in it. 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And now, as the origin of the kingdoms of nature was communicated to them in the Mystery of Ephesus under the influence of the Goddess Artemis, they were able, on the other hand, to judge how the things external to man on the Earth came into being, how gradually everything external to man on the Earth was formed out of a primeval substance, which substance also included man. And the life of these two personalities—it fell partly in the latter end of the time when Heraclitus[^8] was still living in Ephesus, and partly in the time that followed—became particularly rich inwardly and was powerfully lit up from within with the light of great cosmic secrets. There was in them moreover a strong consciousness of how man in his life of soul may be connected, not merely with that which lies spread out around him on the Earth, but with that too which extends upward,—when he himself reaches upward with his being. Such was the inner configuration of soul of these two personalities, who had worked together in the earlier Egypto-Chaldean epoch and then lived together at the time of Heraclitus and after, in connection with the Mystery of Ephesus. And now this working together was able to continue still further. The configuration of soul that had been developed in both, passed through death, through the spiritual world, and began to prepare itself for an Earth life that must needs again bring problems which will now of course present themselves in quite a different way. And when we observe in what manner these two personalities had to find their part later in the history of Earth evolution, we may see how through the experiences of the soul in earlier times—these experiences having their karmic continuation in the next life on Earth—things are prepared which afterwards appear in totally different form in the later life, when the personalities are once more incorporated into the evolution of humanity on Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":412,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1923-12-26/p044","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. 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Diese Mysterienstätte von Ephesus, sie war ja so, daß sie in ihrem Mittelpunkte das Bildnis der Göttin Artemis hatte. Wenn heute einer die Nachbildungen der Göttin Artemis von Ephesus anschaut, so hat er nur die groteske Empfindung einer Frauengestalt mit lauter Brüsten, weil er keine Ahnung hat, wie solche Sachen in alten Zeiten erlebt worden sind. Auf das Erleben dieser Dinge kam es ja in alten Zeiten an. Die Schüler der Mysterien hatten Vorbereitungen durchzumachen, durch die sie dann zum eigentlichen Zentrum der Mysterien geführt wurden. Das Zentrum dieser ephesischen Mysterien war dieses Artemisbildnis. Wenn sie zu diesem Zentrum geführt wurden, so wurden sie eins mit einem solchen Bildnis. Der Mensch hörte auf, indem er vor diesem Bildnis stand, das Bewußtsein zu haben, er sei irgend etwas da in seiner Haut drinnen. Er bekam das Bewußtsein, daß er das ist, was das Bild ist. Er identifizierte sich mit dem Bilde. Und dieses Sich-Identifizieren im Bewußtsein mit dem Götterbilde zu Ephesus, das hatte die Wirkung, daß man nun nicht mehr hinschaute auf die Reiche der Erde, die einen umgaben, auf Steine, Bäume, Flüsse, Wolken und so weiter, sondern indem man sich hineinfühlte in das Bildnis der Artemis, bekam man innerlich die Anschauung seines Zusarmmenhanges mit den Ätherwelten. Man fühlte sich eins mit der Sternenwelt, mit den Vorgängen in der Sternenwelt. Man fühlte nicht die irdische Substantialität innerhalb der menschlichen Haut, man fühlte sein kosmisches Dasein. Man fühlte sich im Ätherischen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1923-12-26/p029"},{"locus":"GA 233/1923-12-26/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Und durch dieses Sich-Fühlen im Ätherischen ging einem auf, was frühere Zustände des Erdenerlebens des Menschen waren und des Erdenerlebens an sich. Heute schauen wir die Erde so an, daß sie, wie gesagt, eine Art Gesteinsklotz ist, der die Gewässer trägt über einen großen Teil seiner Oberfläche hin, der umgeben ist von einem Luftkreis, in dem Sauerstoff und Stickstoff und andere Stoffe sind, in dem vor allen Dingen das ist, was der Mensch zum Atmen braucht und so weiter. Und wenn die Menschen heute in dem, was gebräuchliche Naturerkenntnisse sind, zu spekulieren, zu beobachten, die Beobachtung zu deuten anfangen - dann kommt schon etwas Rechtes heraus! Denn dasjenige, was diesen heutigen Zuständen in urältesten Zeiten vorangegangen ist, das kann nur durch Geistesschau erlangt werden. Aber ein solches Geistesschauen über Urzustände der Erde und der Menschheit ging den Schülern von Ephesus auf, wenn sie sich mit dem Götterbilde identifizierten, und sie lernten erkennen, wie dasjenige, was heute Atmosphäre um die Erde ist, einst nicht so war, wie es jetzt ist, sondern wie das, was da vorhanden war in dieser Erdenumgebung an der Stelle, wo heute die Atmosphäre ist, wie das außerordentlich feines, flüssig-flüchtiges Eiweiß war, Eiweißsubstanz. So daß alles, was auf der Erde lebte, zu seiner Entstehung die Kräfte dieser über die Erde hin flüchtigflüssigen Eiweißsubstanz brauchte und auch in dieser lebte. 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